Adult male © Thibaud Aronson eBird S120613986 Macaulay Library ML 506540391
Female/immature male © Brian Sullivan
Female/immature male © CELINE LAHAYE
Adult male © graichen & recer
Adult male © Ben Sanders
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Adult male © Jesse Huth
Female/immature male © Johan Chaves

Rufous-crested Coquette Lophornis delattrei

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Identification

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Tiny hummingbird; male is striking with fabulous spiky orange crest, each feather tipped in black. Otherwise greenish with dark throat and conspicuous white band across rump. Female much less obvious; look for very small size, rufous forehead and throat, and white band across rump. Range usually helps to eliminate other similar species of coquette; note especially similarity to Spangled Coquette. Found more often in edges than other coquettes, especially brushy clearings or roadsides with flowering bushes.

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